This book continues to be so much fun.
I'm liking the evil Dean. (Although somehow I can't help hearing Harvey Korman from Blazing Saddles in my head when he goes into a rant, and that's kind of disturbing.)
And I'm loving the giant head.
And the fact that Ryan is still interested in dating Dr. Zuel. (She has my favorite line in the book: "I promise nothing.")
I even felt sorry for last issue's eeeevil supervillain, Dwarfstar, for half a moment. That poor guy. That poor, scary, sociopathic guy.
New villain? Undecided. Definitely evil, though. Wondering whether the Dr. Hyatt Ryan encounters later is maybe not the same Dr. Hyatt that Ryak is interested in--just a guess, based on what Hyatt says ("My name's Hyatt, Dr. Teddy Hyatt? You might've heard of my dad?").
What stuck in my mind most after reading this issue, though, is Ryan's difficulties in his actual job--his concern about not being a good teacher.
It's possible that he isn't. He asks the class for their input, and when they have none he says "Guess we read from the textbook, then." He doesn't have anything in the way of a lecture prepared? He's relying on student input for class structure? The students have nothing to say and he's got nothing but the text? Sure, I've taken classes where the discussion is often student-led (usually humanities classes--never having taken nuclear physics, I've no idea whether that approach would work for that subject), but I know students well enough to know that the teacher needs to have something else planned. That's not saying that Ryan couldn't be a good teacher. He's got a lot of enthusiasm for his subject, but (in this issue, at least) doesn't seem capable of getting that across to the class.
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